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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Custom Image for Welcome Page

Add a custom image file (corporate logo, for example) to the Cognos login, welcome or landing pages. The on-premise version allows for formal customers to load customizations, themes, extensions, welcome and login views to the Cognos Analytics ser...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Drive Explore - To have compressed and delete function

For PA log housekeeping, it is very tedious if we need to compress multiple files and then select files to delete to free up space. This is especially on enterprise model that have big numbers of log generated. It is very inefficient and tedious t...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward should proactively determine if END OF LOGS will not be able to be reached

In a partitioned database environment, if there is some log file from a database partition that is missing, the database can only be recovered to a point in time where the log files from all database partitions are available. If only the log files...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Do not overwrite db2setup.log

During installation DB2 writes to db2setup.log. If installation is started a second time the previously created file db2setup.log is overwritten and all the information of the previous install attempts is lost. If installation routine would rename...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Maintain Profile name for fields exported with Field Definition option

When migration releases between OpenPages environments, customers would need to export individual fields that were created in the source environment and import the fields to the target environment. Customer does not want to export the full object ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration